SARAH RUBIDGE
Artist's Statement (2025)
Sarah’s artistic work, which has been presented nationally and internationally, focuses on choreographic and sensate responses as a means of engaging with and developing a nuanced understanding of others and of the world around us. She specialises in collaborative practices, working with a range of practitioners from musicians to visual artists, neuroscientists to geographers, and all points in between. Many of her works, digital and otherwise, incorporate the participation of audiences as a means of generating the installations as events in real time.
In an artistic hiatus, since 2018 she conceived, created and established an innovative MA by Research for mature practitioners at a dance conservatoire. During this period she has been focusing on developing the MA and on mentoring emerging and mid-career dance artists. This has enabled her to share her experience of non-hierarchical artistic collaboration and of working across disciplines. It has also given her the opportunity to once again reflect on her own practices, now as a mature artist. She is currently in the early stages of developing new work in collaboration with an electroacoustic composer.
Biography (2025)
Sarah Rubidge is a dance artist and scholar specialising in digital choreography and participatory installations. A freelance dance and digital installation artist for over 40 years, in 1986 she completed an MPhil at the University of Surrey, in which she interrogated the value of her practice as a Community Dance Artist. In 1993, her practice having become more directly oriented towards the choreographic, Sarah became the first to undertake a practice-led artistic doctorate at the Laban Centre, London, in which she interrogated her ongoing artistic practice in depth. She was awarded the PhD in 2000.
In 2001, Sarah became one of the first to be awarded an Arts & Humanities Creative Arts Fellowship. Sited in the University of Chichester here she actively pursued her developing dialogue between digital and artistic sensibilities, and the potential value of the sensory in digital media. This resulted in a major choreographic installation Sensuous Geographies (2003). The Fellowship eventually led to her appointment to a Professorship in Choreography and New Media at the University of Chichester in 2008, during which she maintained both her artistic and scholarly practices, generating several installations, including Global Drifts 2006; Fugitive Moments 2006; Streamlines 2012. . Sarah retired from her post at The University of Chichester in 2013. Since then she has continued as a freelance artist and scholar, pursuing her practical research as and when the opportunity arises (Thai Tracings 2013 and Worlds Adrift 2017)
Links
Sarah Rubidge 2025 [email protected]
Fugitive Moments (2006) vimeo.com/240183369
Eros Eris (2006) vimeo.com/259868085
Worlds Adrift (2017) vimeo.com/255161331
Sarah’s artistic work, which has been presented nationally and internationally, focuses on choreographic and sensate responses as a means of engaging with and developing a nuanced understanding of others and of the world around us. She specialises in collaborative practices, working with a range of practitioners from musicians to visual artists, neuroscientists to geographers, and all points in between. Many of her works, digital and otherwise, incorporate the participation of audiences as a means of generating the installations as events in real time.
In an artistic hiatus, since 2018 she conceived, created and established an innovative MA by Research for mature practitioners at a dance conservatoire. During this period she has been focusing on developing the MA and on mentoring emerging and mid-career dance artists. This has enabled her to share her experience of non-hierarchical artistic collaboration and of working across disciplines. It has also given her the opportunity to once again reflect on her own practices, now as a mature artist. She is currently in the early stages of developing new work in collaboration with an electroacoustic composer.
Biography (2025)
Sarah Rubidge is a dance artist and scholar specialising in digital choreography and participatory installations. A freelance dance and digital installation artist for over 40 years, in 1986 she completed an MPhil at the University of Surrey, in which she interrogated the value of her practice as a Community Dance Artist. In 1993, her practice having become more directly oriented towards the choreographic, Sarah became the first to undertake a practice-led artistic doctorate at the Laban Centre, London, in which she interrogated her ongoing artistic practice in depth. She was awarded the PhD in 2000.
In 2001, Sarah became one of the first to be awarded an Arts & Humanities Creative Arts Fellowship. Sited in the University of Chichester here she actively pursued her developing dialogue between digital and artistic sensibilities, and the potential value of the sensory in digital media. This resulted in a major choreographic installation Sensuous Geographies (2003). The Fellowship eventually led to her appointment to a Professorship in Choreography and New Media at the University of Chichester in 2008, during which she maintained both her artistic and scholarly practices, generating several installations, including Global Drifts 2006; Fugitive Moments 2006; Streamlines 2012. . Sarah retired from her post at The University of Chichester in 2013. Since then she has continued as a freelance artist and scholar, pursuing her practical research as and when the opportunity arises (Thai Tracings 2013 and Worlds Adrift 2017)
Links
Sarah Rubidge 2025 [email protected]
Fugitive Moments (2006) vimeo.com/240183369
Eros Eris (2006) vimeo.com/259868085
Worlds Adrift (2017) vimeo.com/255161331